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Trump: Boeing Should Fix, Then Re-brand Max Jets


FILE - An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits at a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York, March 13, 2019. American Airlines said on April 7, 2019 it is extending by over a month its cancellations of about 90 daily flights
FILE - An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits at a boarding gate at LaGuardia Airport in New York, March 13, 2019. American Airlines said on April 7, 2019 it is extending by over a month its cancellations of about 90 daily flights

President Donald Trump is offering some unsolicited advice to Boeing, manufacturer of the troubled 737 Max jet.

Trump tweeted Monday that if he were in charge of Boeing, he would "FIX" the plane, "add some additional great features, & REBRAND the plane with a new name." He adds: "No product has suffered like this one."

Trump — who brands his hotels, golf courses and buildings with the Trump name — tweeted sarcastically, "what the hell do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!)."

Airlines and countries around the world have grounded the Boeing 737 Max or banned it from airspace after an Ethiopian Airlines crash last month. A crash involving the same model happened off Indonesia in October.

Trump once owned a short-lived airline: Trump Shuttle.

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